Ajay Yadav quits Cong, hits out at Kamal Nath

After decades in the Congress, senior Haryana leader and former minister Capt Ajay Yadav on Friday abruptly announced his decision to quit the party. He blamed former Union minister Kamal Nath for undermining his prestige.

Nath, who stepped down as Punjab Congress in-charge owing to his controversial role in the 1984 anti-Sikh carnage, was made in-charge of the Haryana Congress by the party high command.

In a series of tweets since morning, Yadav wrote, “Kamal Nath, you mislead the high command and undermined my prestige. You have 40 years of experience, but I too have 30 years to my credit.”

“My father was a true Congressman and I too had great faith in the Nehru-Gandhi family, but B S Hooda is supreme and others are insignificant,” he tweeted.

In fact, Yadav has been hurt after he was sidelined post the coronation of Nath as the party in-charge. “I gave my youth and life for the Congress party and worked as a true soldier of the party, but as my ego has been hurt, I quit the Congress,” he said. The immediate provocation for his decision to quit the Congress was that Nath did not make him a part of the meeting of senior leaders to several resolve issues, including internal dissent.